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Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? 508

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @01:25PM from the patent-your-own-idea-stealer dept.

BinaryGrind writes "I just got started taking Computer Science classes at my local university and after reading Universities Patenting More Student Ideas I felt I needed to ask: How do I tell if any of my projects while attending classes will be co-opted by my professors or the university itself and taken away from me? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening? What do I need to do to protect myself? Are there schools out there that won't take my work away from me if I discover TheNextBigThing(TM)? If it does happen is there anything I can do to fight back? The school I'm attending is Southern Utah University. Since it's not a big university, I don't believe it has a big research and development department or anything of that ilk. I'm mostly wanting to cover my bases and not have my work stolen from me."

Comment See the Eames version (Score 5, Informative) 76

by david94133 on Wednesday January 07, 2004 @03:23PM (#7905128) Attached to: Magnifying by Powers of Ten

The original Powers of Ten video (by Charles and Ray Eames) is still the definitive version. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes this web version.

The original is one continuous zoom, from human-scale, all the way out, then al the way in, down to sub-atomic particles. There is narration and various clues to scale, which helps a lot.

It is a landmark film and holds up very well after all these years.

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